Authority Cited: Addison, Dr.
Author name and dates: Lancelot Addison (1632-1709)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; Chaplin at Dunkirk, Tangier; dean of Lichfield cath.; devotional and travel works; father of Joseph
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Dr. Addison cite in 1755 Dict. vol.1.]
Text: "The ground about the said Fort, and the several Avenues, were thick sown with Galtraps; a Grain which seem'd the more strange to the shooless Moors, in that they reapt it with their feet. The Granadoes and Galtraps so cool'd their impetuousness, that they were wary for the future how they came near the Forts and Lines."]
Author name and dates: Lancelot Addison (1632-1709)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; Chaplin at Dunkirk, Tangier; dean of Lichfield cath.; devotional and travel works; father of Joseph
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Dr. Addison cite in 1755 Dict. vol.1.]
- Dr. Addison’s Account of Tangiers: The Moores baffled : being a discourse concerning Tanger, especially when it was under the Earl of Teviot : by which you may find what methods and government is fittest to secure that place against the Moors : in a letter from a learned person (long resident in that place) at the desire of a person of quality, 1681, London : Printed for William Crooke at the Green-Dragon without Temple-Bar; caltrops [BKG Note: inexact quote, perhaps from memory. There were various editions to 1738.
Text: "The ground about the said Fort, and the several Avenues, were thick sown with Galtraps; a Grain which seem'd the more strange to the shooless Moors, in that they reapt it with their feet. The Granadoes and Galtraps so cool'd their impetuousness, that they were wary for the future how they came near the Forts and Lines."]